? Former Mexican President Vicente Fox “has become an unlikely leading advocate of marijuana legalization . . . [due to] Mexico’s mounting drug violence.” Since 2006, around “70,000 Mexicans have died, and thousands more disappeared” due to drug-related violence.

? Mexico has “asked the United States to investigate the allegations [that the NSA collected “emails, phone calls and text messages” of now President Enrique Pena Nieto], saying they would be a serious violation of its sovereignty if proven true.”

? The US Department of Education is beginning to “get some real data, using a method [called] randomized clinical trial, in which groups of subjects are randomly assigned to get either an experimental therapy, the standard therapy, a placebo or nothing.” Translate ‘therapy’ into “textbooks, curriculum guides, homework, quizzes”, etc., and you get the general idea.